TV Recaps

The best episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 thus far does (almost) everything you want from a show like this. A woo-woo sci-fi...

Now this is more like it! The Hunting Party slipped into Season 2’s familiar holding pattern last week, with a decent enough case that just didn’t feel...

It takes all of Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ three-part premiere to get to the premise, which revolves around a struggling single mother starting an OnlyFans...

The good news — or bad news, I suppose, depending on where you’re sitting — is that, despite getting a shard of glass wedged in...

Generally speaking, tea parties are about as fun as they sound. This, it turns out, is especially true of The Testaments, wherein tea parties are the...

If there’s a better argument for giving a show a chance than Imperfect Women, I struggle to think of one. Apple TV+’s female-focused murder-mystery started out...

The secret to most Bill Lawrence shows is that you want to spend time with their characters. You like them, as you would your own...

Euphoria has always been many things – salacious, provocative, stupid, lurid, occasionally brilliant, and so on, and so forth – but chief among them was...

Lightsaber fights are like buses. You wait ages for one, and then several come at once. As it turns out, Devon’s little stand-off with Maul...

Well, it took until Episode 3, but Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord finally included a lightsaber duel. And it was fine! Not a patch...

I’ve always hated the naive – and, frankly, entirely incorrect – idea that characters in stories have to be “likeable” or “relatable”. There are all-time-great...

Jonathan Glatzer’s TV résumé is tough to argue with, but it’s difficult to watch his Silicon Valley satire The Audacity and not feel like the...

American Classic isn’t the kind of show that suits a big late-stage twist. Now that I think about it, I’d never even considered the idea...

Edgewater is a pretty weird place, which isn’t helped by the fact that most people there are on drugs. But for once, the town’s lax...

I’ve been complaining for weeks that Boston Blue tends not to make use of Sean and Jonah, but at the risk of sounding like I’m...

As a network procedural, you can’t fault The Hunting Party for having a pattern. Season 2 has relied on it to varying extents, delivering a slew of...

The Pitt feels unusually reserved in the penultimate episode of Season 2. It isn’t that there aren’t new patients being wheeled in all the time, or...

Fittingly for an hour titled “Gloves Off”, Daredevil: Born Again is taking some pretty big narrative swings in Episode 4. I don’t think anybody expected...